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Example sentences for "considerable elevation"

  • These plains I named Hamilton's Plains, and they were bounded by hills of considerable elevation to the southward; whilst the whole level country thus bounded was honoured with the designation of Princess Charlotte's Crescent.

  • In many of the narrowest and most rugged places there is no passage along the river, and the road crosses spurs of considerable elevation.

  • After three miles the ravine opened into a wide gravelly plain, skirted by rounded hills of considerable elevation, to which the alluvial platforms sloped very gently on both sides.

  • Raised beaches on the coast show that there has been a considerable elevation of the sea-bed.

  • The hills rise, especially on the east coast, to a considerable elevation: the chief heights being in the North Andaman, Saddle Peak (2400 ft.

  • Premsong's village is obviously at a considerable elevation.

  • He states that the face of the country, as far as he could discover it, was mountainous and desolate; and that some of the mountains were of considerable elevation.

  • The surface of the land was broken into hills and vales; some of them of considerable elevation, and covered with forests of stately trees.

  • The back land is low for some miles, and not ill covered with grass and wood; it then rises to hills of considerable elevation, amongst which Double Mount was most remarkable.

  • At eight o'clock, by favour of moon light and a short cessation of rain, land was perceived on the lee beam; it seemed to be a head of considerable elevation, and was judged to be from three to six miles off.

  • When we had reached a considerable elevation, all of a sudden a human figure springs into the road.

  • This favourable nature of the ground extends to a considerable elevation, and had probably been the inducement which had influenced our leader to bring us such a long way.

  • The passes across this zone are of considerable elevation, though a good number are open all the year round.

  • A bog which lay at a considerable elevation, forced up probably by subterranean springs, was completely loosened from its bottom, and travelled on in a mass, sixteen feet high and three or four acres in extent.

  • We skirted the shore at a considerable elevation, and the numerous lights of the ships and marine buildings below us were like an illumination.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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